The Baloch students in Lahore took to the roads on Saturday to protest against the “enforced disappearance” of Naveed Qadeer Baloch, a Baloch student who recently went “missing” in Quetta. Students from various academic institutions of the city gathered in a demonstration, demanding the immediate recovery of their missing companion.
According to the details, the Baloch students in Lahore held a protest against the alleged “enforced disappearance” of Naveed Qadeer Baloch on Saturday. Naveed, a final-year student in the mining department of the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, went missing from the provisional capital Quetta on the 9th of January, 2021. He had travelled to Quetta for his final-year project.
Students from various institutions of the city participated in the protest, carrying placards and banners and demanding the safe recovery of Naveed Baloch. Addressing the gathering, the speakers said that being a Baloch has become a crime in this country. They said that the campaign for the recovery of Naveed Baloch will continue as such. Instead of recovering the thousands of missing persons, the speakers said, the state is “forcibly disappearing” hundreds of other Baloch youth.
A social media campaign was also conducted for the recovery of Naveed Baloch. Hundreds of users took to Twitter to demand the release of the missing Baloch student. Sammi Deen Baloch – a rights activist advocating for the safe recovery of Baloch missing persons – said in a tweet that a peaceful academic environment is almost non-existent in Balochistan. Baloch students travel to Punjab in search of this environment and when they return to their homes for vacations, they are “abducted.”